blogging
On why we should be writing
I go through a crisis of purpose in maintaining this blog often, very often. The usual litany of questions I think many like me ask: why am I doing this? Will anyone read it? Am I doing it well? Etc. I ran across this great but of wisdom from Akindele
New Year, “new” blog
Because I’m a tinkerer, not to mention a pain in the butt. I decided to play around with my blogs again and I’m consolidating my reading notes blog with my regular one and updating the URL back to the old-fashioned blog.jasonkratz.me. The name has been changed
Thoughts on SeptemBest
What each of the SeptemBest posts meant to me.
iA Writer and Ghost: setting the title on publish
I ran across something I wanted to share about using iA Writer's built-in Ghost publishing. I found out that while Writer's publishing to Ghost is pretty bare bones it does support setting the title of the post multiple ways: 1. The title can be set by
Sharing in public: a follow up
It's funny how the universe works. I wrote yesterday some thoughts I'd been having about sharing in public after reading Joan Westenberg's article and then last night I read a post from a person who talked about a recent situation at their job where
Writing on Ghost with Ulysses and iA Writer
Up until recently this blog was hosted on Blot.im. For various reasons, mostly because I suck at front-end web development, I moved to a PikaPods-hosted version of Ghost where this blog is currently living (and should be living for a long time). Ghost has really good default themes and
Notes on migrating Ghost and Mailgun to a new domain
⚠️Old post but still relevant except for the domains I am using. I just moved this blog from blog.jasonkratz.me to echoville.blog while at the same time moving to using echoville.blog as the domain for Mailgun. My platform for this blog is: 1. Fastmail for my custom
Using "Free" Mailgun with self-hosted Ghost
Just a couple of notes about setting up a Mailgun pay-as-you-go account to use with a self-hosted Ghost setup for things I ran into that weren't obvious to me. Make sure to sign up for the Foundation trial for Mailgun This lets you add a a credit card